An episcopate really is a good governance structure. It’s got enough form to be able to do stuff, but not so much that the subsidiarity of local concerns is abandoned.

You see things like it arise in a variety of guises and in a variety of spheres of life.

“Ah, well the word modernist is code for non-believer” from https://youtu.be/m2dNCw0hPLs?si=0xBHOTYnG-WaOGae. The one and only Yes, Prime Minister.

>"The Alpha course, which has been taken by more than 24 million people and counts among its celebrity attendees… Bear Grylls and, more dubiously, Russell Brand"

I was disappointed at the inclusion of this discrediting swipe at Brand, as if Alpha is something other than a space for any and everyone.